by Jeff Tidball | Jul 9, 2010 | awards, Conventions
The nominees for the 2010 ENnie awards have been posted. These RPG-oriented awards do a good job of looking into some of the specific disciplines of RPG production (best writing, best production values) that more general hobby gaming awards like the Origins Awards...
by Jeff Tidball | Apr 8, 2010 | Conventions, Promotion
Online event registration for GenCon goes live this coming Sunday, April 11. When you’re drawing up your GenCon schedule, we hope you’ll make room for one or both of our Gameplaywright events this year. Hamlet’s Hit Points is a seminar where Robin...
by Jeff Tidball | Nov 9, 2009 | Conventions, Story
This past weekend, I was a guest at Nanocon, a convention put on by the gaming club at Dakota State University. As part of the gig, I gave a presentation and did Q&A, along with fellow guests Richard Dansky and Chris Sims, on Friday afternoon. Many of the people...
by Will Hindmarch | Aug 24, 2009 | Conventions, RPGs
Jason Corley, in addition to being a regular commenter here at Gameplaywright, is an assistant attorney general for the state of Arizona, a long-time roleplayer and GM, and a husband. He co-hosts the “Out of Character” podcast on the Pulp Gamer media...
by Jeff Tidball | Aug 19, 2009 | Conventions, Fan Culture, Musing
Much of fan culture comes with a casual sense of superiority. Those of us who aren’t furries have at least some group of geeks to look down on, as Lore Sjöberg’s classic Geek Hierarchy illustrates. While working the Adventure Retail booth at Comic-Con, it...
by Will Hindmarch | Aug 19, 2009 | Board Games, Books, card games, Conventions, Promotion, RPGs
For me, this past Gen Con was more about shopping and conversation than it was about playing actual games. This was a terrible mistake on my part. I could’ve been having conversations while I was playing games, but I didn’t quite manage to pull that off....
